A monk came to say good bye to Ch'an master Niaowo (Bird's Nest). He said:
-Thank you, Sir, for everything you've done for me. Now I got to go.
Niaowo asked:
-Where will you go?
-Any place where I can learn Buddha dharmas.
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Posted on Jan.05.2013 @ 07:17PM EDTbyleoj99 The Final Teaching of Buddha - No Words.

So obviously if ... no words .. no thinking...

""Toward the end of his life, the Buddha took his disciples to a quiet
pond for instruction. As they had done so many times before, the
Buddha’s followers sat in a small circle around him, and waited for the
teaching.But this time the Buddha had no words. He reached
into the muck and pulled up a lotus flower. And he held it silently
before them, its roots dripping mud and water.The disciples
were greatly confused. Buddha quietly displayed the lotus to each of
them. In turn, the disciples did their best to expound upon the meaning
of the flower: what it symbollized, and how it fit into the body of
Buddha’s teaching.When at last the Buddha came to his
follower Mahakasyapa, the disciple suddenly understood. He smiled and
began to laugh. Buddha handed the lotus to Mahakasyapa and began to speak.“What can be said I have said to you,” smiled the Buddha, “and what cannot be said, I have given to Mahakashyapa.”Mahakashyapa became Buddha’s successor from that day forward.""

The Buddha's final Teaching is beyond words. Yet most people are always insisting on words. It is exactly the same when they always insists on thinking. Most people cannot never see the futility of thinking...lol

Most of Buddha's disciples are still expounding with words about the lotus flower. Only Mahakashyapa understood.

Most people are teaching of non-attachments of all kinds. But obviously they are so attached with their thoughts. They even say you have no control of your thoughts. It is like you have no control of the rain. And they feel they are very intelligent by saying those things.

When one does the self inquiry to seek the essence of ones mindOne seeks for the very root of the mindBuddha reached into the muck and pulled out the lotus .. root and allThus, presenting the truth of the mindOf all the people there, only one understood